-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John wrote:

Another person can see your fundamentals but not you, and vice versa.

Faustine demonstrated this with her parable about locating a long-lost acquaintance, as did he her, uh, her he. He did not could not recognize what she saw in him, and she did not see how he identified her. What she saw was a secondary appearance he claims to have seen in her writings, not primary.

There is no way out of the dilemma of not being able to see in yourself what others do, what they see in you is transparent to you. An unexamined life is the only possibility -- the joke of the opposite canard.

Camouflage at will, but it will take another party to check how you blindly failed to protect yourself.

But since I did want to be found, it seemed perversely interesting to see if he was the kind of person I could get to find me the same way I found him...somehow it was much more satisfying to let him think my post was a coincidence and he was the one being clever and doing the sleuthing. Sort of a joke at him, at myself, at the absurdity of thinking you can ever be truly anonymous. Whether or not I could I have pulled off posting about the subject without being recognized is an entirely different question: if you disguise your opinion enough, at some point it's not yours anymore. And if you take it even farther and become too deeply enraptured by the perverse pleasures of perception management, you end up deceiving yourself most of all. A joke within a joke within a joke within still another joke that's not that funny, but there you are. I'm not so blind I can't recognize and laugh at some of my more colorful tired old crotchety hobbyhorses...since people are only going to see in you what they want to anyway, I choose to ride them all the same. Or: fuck 'em. ~Faustine. "A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing." - -Georges Bataille -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPDD75fg5Tuca7bfvEQI9bQCgrUdnvqZ0VAhFOB5qvAC/5cSEdvIAoLcB xO4QdebqTAs2vIkau+6Ry+kw =UzOj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----